My husband and I are both working on losing weight. Between the two of us, we have a whole 'big boned" human to lose.
We both did quite well following low glycemic. But, we fell off the wagon and wound up near where we started. He started with the MWL and I started Keto. The difference between the two is primarily restriction. It didn’t take long for him to see all the food I was eating and enjoying and not being hungry while losing more pounds than he was. He got on board, but still struggles to really buy-in. He sticks to chicken breast (so dry and fatless) but does add plenty of cheese and avocado. Not a battle I’m ready to fight with him yet. He is still trying to shake the years of ingrained dogmas that fat is is going to give him a heart attack and is generally unhealthy, and that you should eat many small meals throughout the day to keep the metabolism up.
He hasn’t fought me on my fasting (OMAD, 48, 36), but I can see in his face that he is uncomfortable with it and the large amount of food I eat when I’m feasting.
I have convinced him to try IF. One week ago he began 18:6. It was really hard for him. But his usual two pound weekly weight loss jumped up to 8. He was blown away.
Today was the real victory. He decided, all on his own, that he will try to incorporate a 36 hour fast, weekly!
